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Manuals, Toolkits and Guidance

The Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability 

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Publication year:

2014

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English, Amharic, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese, Filipino, French, Creole, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Mongolian, Nepali, Oromifa, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese

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(1.4 MiB)

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CHS Alliance, Core Humanitarian Standard Alliance,Groupe URD, GPPi,The Sphere Project

The Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS) sets out Nine Commitments that organisations and individuals involved in humanitarian response can use to improve the quality and effectiveness of the assistance they provide. It also facilitates greater accountability to communities and people affected by crisis: knowing what humanitarian organisations have committed to will enable them to hold those organisations to account.

As a core standard, the CHS describes the essential elements of principled, accountable and high-quality humanitarian action. Humanitarian organisations may use it as a voluntary code with which to align their own internal procedures. It can also be used as a basis for verification of performance.

The CHS is the result of a 12-month, three-stage consultation facilitated by HAP International, People In Aid and the Sphere Project, during which many hundreds of individuals and organisations rigorously analysed the content of the CHS and tested it at headquarters and field level.

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